Lemony Slope Analysis

In the novel, The Slippery Slope, Lemony Snicket quotes the poem "Garden of Proserpine" and includes an illustration of two children riding a man-built wooden raft while one is trying to get on the raft. These two sources help justify my prediction that the Baudelaires are using the Stricken Stream to find their way to Hotel Denouement, which was claimed in the Snicket Files (a highly classified document with potentially dangerous information) to be the last safe place for members of the V.F.D.(a secret organization which was believed to be created to help fight fire) to meet because of the threatening characters such as Count Olaf who want nothing more but to destroy the V.F.D and kill off the remaining members of it.

Based off the sources given by Lemony Snicket toward the end of the novel, in the next book of the series: A Series of Unfortunate Events, I predict that the following events will happen to the Baudelaires in the next book. The Baudelaires will try to find their friend, Quigley Quagmire, who went down the wrong side of the Stricken Stream, because he had the map to the last safe place: Hotel Denouement. Although I do not have solid proof, I think Quigley Quagmire will survive because he has survived incidents
much worse than this and try to find the Baudelaires. In the middle, they will meet up again but find out that the map has been damaged because of the water but will try to salvage as much as possible. However when they are studying the map, a huge tide will send them to the Stricken Stream, where they realize that they are on a shortcut. After a few hours on the stream, the will finally make it to the Hotel where they find out about the V.F.D. and their parents.

Evidence for my predictions are: When the two elder Baudelaires, Klaus and Violet and their friend Quigley Quagmire finally managed to rescue their baby sister, Sunny, the escape route did not work out as planned because part of their escape raft left go and Quigley Quagmire went down the other tributary.
The reasons they will try to find Quigley are that he is their childhood friend and he has the map to Hotel Denouement, which the siblings have varified as the last safe place for members of the V.F.D. to meet. The Baudelaires will find Quigley at the end of the tributary. As for the ending, although I have no proof that the Baudelaires will find Hotel Denouement, I still believe that will eventually happen because every story ends that
way.

Based off of the context in the novel and the sources towards the end, I made my prediction that the Baudelaires will find Quigley, use Quigley's map to find their way to Hotel Denouement and attend the meeting with the rest of the V.F.D.